People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
You never play age, you play character.
It's cool now to play golf.
I lust love to play football.
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If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.
The world is a drama, staged in a dream
There are valuable lessons to be learnt in every stage of life.
The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.
If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.
Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.
